Posts by Sean Fennessey
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Who Is the Greatest ‘Saturday Night Live’ Cast Member Ever?
A tournament to determine the most essential ‘SNL’ player in the show’s 40-year history.
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Hollywood Prospectus Special: The Soderpod
Chris Ryan and Sean Fennessey tracked the staggering career arc of Steven Soderbergh. Here they are, in podcast form, talking about the films of Soderbergh.
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: ‘The Rover,’ Guy Pearce, and the Best Films of 2014
Chris Ryan and Sean Fennessey discuss ‘The Rover,’ Guy Pearce, and the best films of 2014.
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Blockbuster Talk: Two X-Superfans on the Sorta-Loyal, Sorta-Great ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’
Every week this summer, two Grantlanders will gather to discuss the week’s mega-franchise, counterprogramming comedy, or teen weepie to discuss truth, spoilers(!), and the Hollywood way. This week: Bryan Singer’s latest multigenerational mutant ensemble, ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past.’
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The Squirrel and the Fox: Jesse Eisenberg and the Cult of the Powerfully Nerdy Movie Star
Jesse Eisenberg, the 30-year-old Queens-born actor, is not classically handsome or elegantly mannered. But he might be the most successful, feted, and sought-after actor of his generation.
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The Doodles of Courtney Barnett
Courtney Barnett sings songs like curlicues. They start straight before bending up and around, messily and unmanageable, loose swirls gathering up around the edges of a page, spindling beyond the margins.
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From A$AP Ferg to Zedd: A Coachella-Informed Guide to 2014 Music Festivals
There is literally nothing worse than hearing someone tell you what a fun time they had at a festival. So we will not do that. Instead, consider this a guide, culled from our experience at the 2014 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, to enjoying the several thousand other festivals happening in America this year. There are so many. And here are many of the artists who will be there.
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The Growing Menagerie of Bizarre Tom Hardy Accents
No one changes the timbre, the inflection, the quaking gurgle in his voice the way Tom Hardy does.
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‘Skin’ Deep: Jonathan Glazer, Scarlett Johansson, and the Incurious State of Sci-Fi in Hollywood
Following none of the conventions of contemporary sci-fi movies — ‘Under the Skin’ is not an elaborate space opera, nor a ribald meta-comedy, or even an allegorical satire — Glazer’s movie follows Laura, an alien played by a bewigged Johansson as she roams the Scottish countryside in a white van in search of male human flesh.
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In Praise of the Bats–t ‘Cheap Thrills’ and Drafthouse Films’ Pledge to Gonzo Cinema
How much would it cost to cut off your pinky? To cheat on your wife? To destroy a friendship? That’s the burning moral question — well, rapid-fire series of burning moral questions — at the center of ‘Cheap Thrills.’
